Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) re-stages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an amphetamine-like, work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months--until they finally snap and go berserk. When Boyle sends killer henchmen to neutralize the lawman, O'Neil is unable to get the miners to back him up. Outland is no classic but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. It also stars Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking (Howard on television's Hill Street Blues) and John Ratzenberger (later to become famous as Cliff on the sitcom Cheers). --Jim Emerson
Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass) his fiancee Zoe (Olivia Wilde) and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful but unsanctioned experiment on a lifeless animal they are ready to make their work public. However when their dean learns what they've done he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her. From Blumhouse Productions the creators of Insidious The Purge and Paranormal Activity.
Inspector Gadget 2 sees the unlikely detective with higher-tech gadgets and more special effects. French Stewart (from TV's Third Rock from the Sun) replaces Matthew Broderick as the bumbling detective in a plot that revolves around the glitch-ridden Gadget being replaced by a completely robotised female. Parent Trap's Elaine Hendrix does what little she can with the one-dimensional role of "G2". Still, Gadget falls for his rival and the pair team up with his smart-as-a-whip niece Penny and her brainy beagle for a showdown with Claw. Where Broderick struggled to humanise the caricature of an inept detective in the 1999 original, Stewart doesn't even try. Instead he plays Gadget as a cartoon with endless over-the-top theatrics. The enhanced special effects may placate young viewers, but without the comedy of the original, that's small comfort. --Kimberly Heinrichs
Together forever. Or else. First love can be innocent or intense intoxicating or insatiable. Mark Wahlberg Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano star in this riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession. Nicole Walker (Witherspoon) always dreamed of being swept away by someone special someone strong sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David (Wahlberg) is all that and more: a modern day
Doctor Who And The Daleks: Eccentric scientific genius Dr. Who activates the T.A.R.D.I.S. a remarkable time machine disguised as an ordinary callbox. But when the Doctor his granddaughters and their friend Ian are transported to the mysterious planet Skaro they discover a race of innocent humanoids under siege by evil robot-like Daleks. Can the Doctor protect this peaceful society from destruction as well as save the entire universe from a diabolical invasion of the future? (Dir. Gordon Flemyng 1965) Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. The remarkable Doctor and his companions use their time machine the T.A.R.D.I.S. to travel to the Earth's future. But when they arrive they discover a battle-raveaged world where mankind has been conquered and enslaved by the diabolical Daleks. Can Doctor Who foil their fiendish plan to mine the Earth's nuclear core? (Dir. Gordon Flemyng 1966)
Together forever. Or else. First love can be innocent or intense, intoxicating or insatiable. Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano star in this riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession. Nicole Walker (Witherspoon) always dreamed of being swept away by someone special, someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David (Wahlberg) is all that and more: a modern day knight ...
Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on a big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters) he finds a haul bigger than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. secrets. Tailed by manipulative Feds and the unwitting courier's Communist puppeteers Skip and Candy find themselves in a precarious gambit that pits greed against redemption the Right versus the Reds and passion ag
Randy, raucous and unexpectedly romantic, "Sex Drive" follows three friends on the road trip of a lifetime!
Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass) his fiancee Zoe (Olivia Wilde) and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful but unsanctioned experiment on a lifeless animal they are ready to make their work public. However when their dean learns what they've done he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her. From Blumhouse Productions the creators of Insidious The Purge and Paranormal Activity.
In the mid-1960s, with Dalekmania sweeping Britain, BBC TV's Doctor Who materialised on the silver screen. Doctor Who and the Daleks replaced William Hartnell with Peter Cushing and remade the Daleks' TV debut with a much bigger budget in Technicolor and Techniscope. With his two granddaughters, Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden (and Roy Castle along for comic relief), the Doctor becomes an intermediary in a conflict between the robotic Daleks and angelic Thals on the almost dead world of Skaro. A huge hit on release, the film remains an enjoyable, well-produced family adventure, though somewhat lacking the menace of the TV original. Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD remakes the second Dalek TV serial and finds the Doctor and companions in a ravaged future London where a resistance movement has literally gone underground to fight the Nazi-like alien invaders. Peter Cushing once more makes a kindly, dependable Doctor, though Bernard Cribbins is given a cringe-making comedy routine impersonating a "roboman", and the jazzy soundtrack is wildly out of place. Nevertheless this is a superior sequel, offering lavish production values, better action set-pieces and a higher suspense and fear factor than its predecessor. The best moments remain surprisingly chilling even today. On the DVD: Doctor Who and the Daleks--the first disc--has a fun, very well-made 1995 documentary running 57 minutes and recounting the production of both feature films. Included are interviews with various surviving cast members. There is also an affectionate commentary with Roberta Tovey and Jennie Linden, hosted by Jonathan Southcote, author of The Cult Films of Peter Cushing. Sadly Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD has no substantial extra features, but both discs include the respective trailer, presented anamorphically enhanced, and a DVD-ROM reproduction of the relevant cinema brochure. The mono sound is good and the pin-sharp, vibrantly colourful, anamorphically enhanced 2.35:1 transfers are all but flawless, making both films look good as new. --Gary S Dalkin
Claude Roc a young Parisian and Anne Brown a young Englishwoman meet in Paris and soon become friends. Anne invites Claude to her home in Wales where he will meet Muriel Anne's younger sister to whom she destines Claude to marry. Eventually Claude proposes to Muriel he is turned down but not wholeheartedly. Then Claude and Muriel's mothers impose a seperation on them suggesting that if they still both love each other in a year then they can wed. During this year apart Muriel falls in love with Claude but he takes a different path and upon his return to Paris pursues many women including Anne Muriel's sister....
The most popular movie in the "classic Trek" series of feature films, Star Trek IV was a box-office smash that satisfied mainstream audiences and hard-core fans alike. The Voyage Home returns to one of the favourite themes of the original TV series--time travel--to bring Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura and Chekov from the 23rd century to present-day (i.e., mid-1980s) San Francisco. In their own time, the Starfleet heroes encounter an alien probe emitting a mysterious message--a message delivered in the song of the now-extinct Earth species of humpback whales. Failure to respond to the probe will result in Earth's destruction, so Kirk and company time-travel to 20th-century Earth--in their captured Klingon starship--to transport a humpback whale to the future in an effort to communicate peacefully with the alien probe. The plot sounds somewhat absurd in description, but as executed by returning director Leonard Nimoy, this turned out to be a crowd-pleasing adventure, filled with a great deal of humour derived from the clash of future heroes and contemporary urban realities, and much lively interaction among the favourite Trek characters. Catherine Hicks plays the 20th-century whale expert who is finally convinced of Kirk's and Spock's benevolent intentions. --Jeff Shannon
'Broken Lance' is a remake of 'House Of Strangers' (1949) which was also remade as 'The Big Show' (1961). All three are based loosely on Shakespeare's play 'King Lear'. Tyrannical cattle baron Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) has raised his older sons harshly leaving them neglected and bitter particularly Ben (Richard Widmark). Matt's youngest son Joe (Robert Wagner) however receives the most attention from Matt's wife a Comanche Indian (Katy Jurado). Joe remains loyal even t
The Jerk: That wild and crazy guy Steve Martin makes his acting debut in this wild and crazy comedy hit The Jerk. Steve portrays Navin Johnson adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family whose crazy inventions lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags. Along the way he's smitten with a lady motorcycle racer survives a series of screwball attacks by a deranged killer becomes a millionaire by inventing the ""opti-grab"" handle for eyeglasses - and shows why he's the hottest comic performer in America today. The Jerk Too: This TV movie sequel stars Mark Blankfield as Navin Johnson the eponymous 'hero'.
Star Trek V left us nowhere to go but up, and with the return of Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer, this sixth instalment restored the movie series to its classic blend of space opera, intelligent plotting and engaging interaction of stalwart heroes and menacing villains. Borrowing its subtitle (and several lines of dialogue) from Shakespeare, the movie finds Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) and his fellow Enterprise crew members on a diplomatic mission to negotiate peace with the revered Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner). When the high-ranking Klingon and several officers are ruthlessly murdered, blame is placed on Kirk and crew. The subsequent investigation, which sees Spock taking on the mantle of Sherlock Holmes, uncovers an assassination plot masterminded by the nefarious Klingon General Chang (Christopher Plummer) in an effort to disrupt a historic peace summit. As this political plot unfolds, Star Trek VI takes on a sharp-edged tone, with Kirk and Spock confronting their opposing views of diplomacy and testing their bonds of loyalty when a Vulcan officer is revealed to be a traitor. With a dramatic depth befitting what was to be the final movie mission of the original Enterprise crew, this film took the veteran cast out in respectably high style, with the torch being passed to the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the following movie, Star Trek: Generations. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Annie: A plucky red-haired girl dreams of a life away outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire ""Daddy"" Warbucks and the pair share spectacular times in 1930's New York City. But Miss Hannigan and her zany villainous colleagues are determined to spoil the fun for America's favourite orphan... Oliver!: Young Oliver Twist (Mark Lester) is an orphan who escapes th
Discover Tai Chi Chi-Kung is presented by Mark Peters a qualified instructor of the British Council For Chinese Martial Arts who has direct lineage back to the founder Grandmaster Cheng Man Ching of Taiwan. Discover Tai Chi-Kung is designed to guide you step-by-step through the 18 movements in 4 sections. Section 1 is a demonstration of the system. Section 2 is an explanation of the key points to remember when practising Section 3 is a guide to breathing and visualisation.
The complete beginners guide to Tai Chi Chaun and Tai Chi Kung is presented by Mark Peters a qualified instructor of the British Council For Chinese Martial Arts who has direct lineage back to the founder Grandmaster Cheng Man Ching of Taiwan. Disc 1: Discover Tai Chi Kung is an excellent introduction to Tai Chi Chaun as well as being a rewarding system of exercise in it's own right for the mind and body. Discover Tai Chi-Kung is designed to guide you step-by-step through the 18
The complete beginners guide to Tai Chi Chaun and Tai Chi Kung is presented by Mark Peters a qualified instructor of the British Council For Chinese Martial Arts who has direct lineage back to the founder Grandmaster Cheng Man Ching of Taiwan. Discover Tai Chi for Health & Relaxation is an introduction for beginners to the art and it's well-being benefits to your mind and body by learning the 37 Step Cheng Style Form as well as including basic Qigong exercises. Discover Tai Chi
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